Hopeful Milling by _Yames

Format: Commander

Commander: Hope Estheim

Bracket: 4

Deck overview

This deck pilots a unique Azorius lifegain-mill strategy, helmed by Hope Estheim. The primary game plan is to gain life through a suite of cheap creatures and enchantments, then convert that life into massive mill at each end step via Hope's triggered ability. The deck packs an overwhelming density of mill spells-from Traumatize and Maddening Cacophony to Sphinx's Tutelage and Terisian Mindbreaker-and uses Bruvac the Grandiloquent to double every milling effect, quickly stripping opponents' libraries. An alternative win condition lives in Aetherflux Reservoir, which can nuke the table once life totals are high. Cost reducers like The Water Crystal and Will, Scion of Peace accelerate the plan, while a robust interaction suite of counterspells, removal, and prison effects (Propaganda, Rest in Peace) keeps the deck safe while it builds toward a mill victory.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Absorb
  • 1 Adarkar Wastes
  • 1 Adventurer's Inn
  • 1 Aerith Gainsborough
  • 1 Aetherflux Reservoir
  • 1 Ajani's Pridemate
  • 1 Archive Trap
  • 1 Ashes of the Abhorrent
  • 1 Authority of the Consuls
  • 1 Basilisk Collar
  • 1 Beacon of Immortality
  • 1 Bruvac the Grandiloquent
  • 1 Cleric Class
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Court of Cunning
  • 1 Cut Your Losses
  • 1 Daxos, Blessed by the Sun
  • 1 Deserted Beach
  • 1 Dismissive Denial
  • 1 Doctor Strange, Surgeon
  • 1 Dovin's Veto
  • 1 Elenda's Hierophant
  • 1 Enlightened Tutor
  • 1 Exemplar of Light
  • 1 Exhibition Tidecaller
  • 1 Fractured Sanity
  • 1 Fumigate
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Gold-Forged Thopteryx
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Heliod's Intervention
  • 1 Hope Estheim
  • 13 Island
  • 1 Jace's Phantasm
  • 1 Jace, the Perfected Mind
  • 1 Jidoor, Aristocratic Capital // Overture
  • 1 Knight of Dawn's Light
  • 1 Leyline of Hope
  • 1 Maddening Cacophony
  • 1 Mindcrank
  • 1 Mystical Tutor
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 12 Plains
  • 1 Port Town
  • 1 Prairie Stream
  • 1 Profane Memento
  • 1 Propaganda
  • 1 Protection Magic
  • 1 Psychic Corrosion
  • 1 Radiant Fountain
  • 1 Rest in Peace
  • 1 Rhox Faithmender
  • 1 Riddlekeeper
  • 1 Riverchurn Monument
  • 1 Ruin Crab
  • 1 Sanguine Sacrament
  • 1 Sea of Clouds
  • 1 Soul Warden
  • 1 Soul's Attendant
  • 1 Space-Time Anomaly
  • 1 Sphinx's Revelation
  • 1 Sphinx's Tutelage
  • 1 Sunscorch Regent
  • 1 Suture Priest
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Tasha's Hideous Laughter
  • 1 Teferi's Tutelage
  • 1 Terisian Mindbreaker
  • 1 The Gaffer
  • 1 The Water Crystal
  • 1 The Wind Crystal
  • 1 Tranquil Cove
  • 1 Traumatize
  • 1 Visions of Beyond
  • 1 Walking Ballista
  • 1 War of the Last Alliance
  • 1 Will, Scion of Peace